[CTSARA] Field Day Point Total
Jonathan Solomon
jon at thesolomonhouse.com
Thu Jun 30 16:56:34 EDT 2011
"...but I sure had a blast"
//THAT// is the primary goal of Field Day. Points are second. RIGHT TERRY?
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On Jun 30, 2011, at 4:21 PM, Christina Kovacs <ckovacs at optonline.net> wrote:
> To bad we went over the 500 allowable QSO's for the GOTA tent but I sure
> had a blast (no matter how cold I got in the middle of the night!)
>
>
> On Thu, Jun 30, 2011 at 2:29 PM, O'Connor, Tony wrote:
>
>> We didn't get penalized for going over but we were allowed to count
>> only
>> the first 500 QSO's.
>> That is, there's a 500-QSO limit for the GOTA station. We made 611
>> QSO's, which is a testament to how much fun everybody was having at
>> the
>> GOTA station. There was a lot of excitement and enthusiasm in the
>> tent
>> and we just kept cranking out the QSO's.
>> If we had had the flexibility to select the 500 we were going to count
>> out of the 611 we made, our score would have been higher. The rules
>> are
>> a little ambiguous on this point, so we asked the ARRL for a
>> clarification and made a very strong argument why it would be within
>> the
>> rules and in the best interests of amateur radio and Field Day to
>> allow
>> us to do so. But the ARRL said, no, we can count only the first 500
>> QSO's. So that's what we did.
>>
>> But, again, spectacular job making all the QSO's we did. It's the
>> first
>> time (that anyone involved was aware of) that the SARA GOTA station
>> maxed out on QSO's -- not just maxed out, but blew the doors off the
>> barn, so to speak.
>> Good job Team GOTA!
>>
>> 73,
>> Tony
>> KB1SUN
>>
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: ctsara-bounces at mailman.qth.net
>> [mailto:ctsara-bounces at mailman.qth.net] On Behalf Of Andrew Rosca
>> Sent: Thursday, June 30, 2011 2:11 PM
>> To: ctsara at mailman.qth.net
>> Subject: Re: [CTSARA] Field Day Point Total
>>
>> I'm confused--was the 611 GOTA QSO too high? Were we not supposed to
>> go over 500?
>>
>> On 6/30/11, ctsara-request at mailman.qth.net
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>>> Date: Thu, 30 Jun 2011 10:33:10 -0400
>>> From: Jon Perelstein <jon.perelstein at gmail.com>
>>> Subject: [CTSARA] Field Day Point Total
>>> To: Stamford Amateur Radio Association <ctsara at mailman.qth.net>
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>>> Sorry for the delay in getting out our Field Day point totals, but an
>> issue
>>> arose about scoring.
>>>
>>> First the good news: Our final score is 9,816. That's an 1800 point
>>> increase over last year. The breakdown is given below.
>>>
>>> Now the bad news: It should have been 9,936, but the League is
>> penalizing
>>> us because -- in our desire to introduce ham radio to families (and
>>> especially teenagers) -- we wound up with 611 GOTA QSOs. We
>> certainly
>>> won't make the mistake of trying to use the GOTA tent to introduce
>>> ham
>>> radio
>>> to families (and especially teenagers) next year.
>>>
>>> QSOs and QSO Points
>>> ----------------------------------
>>>
>>> We operated all radios at under 150 watts, so we get a 2x multiplier
>> on our
>>> QSOs. In addition, there is a 2x multiplier over and above the power
>>> multiplier for CW and digital QSOs. Thus, each phone QSO is worth 2
>> points
>>> and each CW or digital QSO is worth 4 points
>>>
>>> 2504 3A QSOs, consisting of 1846 phone and 658 CW
>>> 500 GOTA QSOs, consisting of 419 phone and 81 digital (the rules cap
>> us at
>>> 500 points for GOTA QSOs for scoring purposes, that's in the rules
>>> and
>> is
>>> not an issue)
>>>
>>> Total phone: 2265 x 2 = 4530
>>> Total CW: 658 x 4 = 2632
>>> Total DIG: 81 x 4 = 324
>>> -----------------------
>>> Total 7486
>>> -----------------------
>>>
>>> GOTA Bonuses
>>> -----------------------
>>> GOTA bonus points come from qualified candidates operating at least
>>> 20
>> QSOs
>>> in the GOTA tent. Because of the dispute with the League, we were
>> able to
>>> claim only 440 bonus points (instead of 500).
>>>
>>> Since we had full-time GOTA Coaching, we can double that to 880
>>>
>>> Other bonuses:
>>> -----------------------
>>> 3 stations on emergency power = 300
>>> Media publicity = 100
>>> Set-up in public place = 100
>>> Information booth = 100
>>> NTS message to ARRL SM/SEC = 100
>>> W1AW Field Day Message = 100
>>> Formal NTS Messages handled (23 mgs) = 100
>>> Natural power QSO = 100
>>> Site Visit by elected official = 100
>>> Site visit by served agency official = 100
>>> Educational Activity = 100
>>> Youth element achieved = 100
>>> Submitted using the on-line ap = 50
>>>
>> ---------------------------------
>>> 1450
>>>
>>> Grand Total
>>>
>>> QSOs: 7486
>>> GOTA Bonus: 880
>>> Other Bonuses: 1450
>>> ------------
>>> 9816
>>> ------------
>>>
>>> 73s
>>> Jon
>>> WB2RYV
>>>
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